YYForce Inc. has acquired 20 wearable data collection systems to support a humanoid robotics development programme, with plans to deploy the equipment through an initiative with the housekeeping team at Novotel Singapore on Stevens. The Nasdaq-listed company said the systems, comprising head-mounted and wrist-mounted cameras, are intended to capture first-person recordings of staff performing routine service tasks.
The move follows YYForce’s earlier partnership with Novotel Singapore on Stevens and Mercure Singapore on Stevens to trial service robots across the two hotels.
YYForce said the initiative would focus initially on selected hospitality workflows, including bed and linen preparation, towel and amenity organisation, and selected cleaning activities. The recordings are intended to document task sequences and hand-object interactions carried out by experienced housekeeping personnel in real operating environments.
Dataset for robot learning
The company said the demonstrations, once reviewed, annotated and technically processed, are meant to support robot learning research and task development, including work involving vision-language-action models. Translating the human demonstrations into robot capabilities will require further processing and adaptation to selected robotic hardware, followed by controlled testing, YYForce said.
Mike Fu, chief executive officer of YYForce, outlined the role the hotel partnership plays in the company’s development approach.
“Access to real operating environments and experienced service teams is an important part of our robotics development strategy,” said Fu. “This initiative will help us document how housekeeping tasks are performed in practice and assess how those demonstrations can support humanoid robot learning. Our focus is on building useful datasets, validating individual tasks and progressing toward practical applications in hospitality and facility services.”
Data handling and scope
YYForce said data collection would follow agreed hotel operating procedures and applicable data protection requirements, with arrangements to address participant notification and consent where required, guest privacy, access controls and permitted uses of recorded material before recording begins. The company described the programme as development-stage, stating that acquiring the systems and collecting demonstrations do not by themselves establish autonomous humanoid capabilities or readiness for commercial deployment.
Initial evaluation will focus on task completion, repeatability and safe execution under controlled conditions, YYForce said. The company described the programme as part of its broader strategy combining workforce expertise, facility management operations and robotics.
